SONIC ADVENTURE GLITCHES GUIDE

 

By Marth

Last updated: November 17, 2008

 

 

Welcome to this Sonic Adventure glitches guide! This guide basically lists all the weird stuff I found in this game, and explains it so other Sonic Adventure fans can see it, too. To start, here are some notes and warnings. It's tempting to just skip to the interesting stuff, but then something might go wrong. Anyway, this gets some questions and disclaimers and whatnot all out of the way.

 

 

 

NOTES AND WARNINGS

 

Note: What about RattleMan's glitches guide?:

Some multi-step tricks are based on the original glitches guide by RattleMan.

(For example, I used RattleMan's way of jumping in front of the windows of city hall to

make the multi-step trick of beating Speed Highway early and messing up the lighting.)

There should be no full glitches/tricks copied from his guide. If you see a glitch that's in both guides, it means that I discovered the glitch before reading his guide.

Although RattleMan didn't work on this guide, I intend for this to be almost like a sequel.

If I refer to an earlier glitch, and I don't give the number it has in my guide, it means that

you should look for that glitch in RattleMan's guide. It can be found at gamefaqs.com under

the name of SonicHackr2000 (who helped RattleMan make the guide).

I (Marth, also known by a ton of other names: Mark, CSMarth, SAPlayer, or ???) discovered everything else

(except for certain other sections where I say who else discovered something) and wrote this guide.

 

Note: Will the tricks in this guide work?:

Look in each entry to see if it will work with your console. There are differences between the consoles, and in some cases, even between regions. I started out with only the GameCube version (North American, v1.0, in case there are others, though it's unlikely), but I later tested pretty much everything on Dreamcast and listed the results with the glitches. I've looked at the PC version, and it seems to, for the most part, match GameCube. However, there is at least one difference from GameCube (collision mapping near the Station Square pool), so the possibility for more differences exists. If your version of the game seems incompatible with part of this guide, or if you have any other problems, let me know.

 

Note: About the Egg Carrier:

When I say what version of the Egg Carrier is being used, I'm talking about whether it's normal or transformed (with the wings out). "Front" and "back" refer to which part of the ship you're on. For example, if you ride the monorail to the part that has Sonic's entrance to the Sky Deck, then you're on the front version. There's actually a difference between the front and back. (In a way, the Egg Carrier has 3 forms, and they change automatically.) Read mystery #5 near the end of the guide for more information.

 

Note: IMPORTANT!

Now that this guide includes the Dreamcast version, I'm adding some warnings.

1. I'm not responsible for anything that could go wrong. I'm trying to list every problem that could damage something (such as your file or your memory card), and the risk, if any, is low, but I might not know every problem that could happen.

 

2. Of course, cancelling a save by messing with the memory cards or shutting off the system can ruin your file.

 

3. RattleMan's guide has some warnings. I guess I can include them here. The first is that the file can erase if the system is shut off while you are in an Action Stage. This hasn't happened to me, so it must only be on Dreamcast- and even then, probably only in the original 1998 Japanese version.

The second is that Adventure Field emblems can disappear (without being saved) when you collect them. If you pick up an emblem in one of the Fields, go to an Action Stage and complete it before quitting. Again, this doesn't seem to be a problem on GameCube (I don't think I've checked Dreamcast), but you might want to play the Action Stages just to be safe.

 

4. There is a big risk when you play stages in the wrong order. The game will almost always trap you, but you can USUALLY escape by using another glitch or by (if that doesn't work) using Action Replay to instantly teleport to one of the Chao Gardens, and then leaving the garden to end up in the Field you're supposed to be in. I've included "escape routes" where they have been discovered to get back into the main field.

 

5. According to genus, if you play using an unofficial memory card, it will be unable to save Chao data. It'd probably be best, then, to use official first-party memory cards for this game. I don't know which versions have this problem.

 

 

 

THE GLITCHES

 

This makes up the bulk of this guide. Each entry has a number (which I am keeping constant, in spite of the deleted entries), a title, console compatibility notes, and finally, the information about the actual glitch. I'm working on a way to indicate which ones are the most interesting.

 

Sonic

 

 

<2. Sonic at Knuckles's entrance to Sky Deck 3> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Hit the button at the end of the stage to tilt the ship back to its normal position, then jump on top of the mesh tunnel that leads to the capsule. From there, jump to the sloped walls lining the stage, and spin-dash up the walls and jump toward the platforms near the entrance. If you can get to the sloped wall fast enough, you should have no trouble reaching your goal. If the ship tilts too far, you'll have to land on the invisible wall at the back (aim for the very back wall or just above it to avoid getting thrown off the ship) and wait for the ship to tilt back to its original position.

 

 

<3. skipping the elevator at the end of Final Egg 2> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Charge up a light speed dash near the elevator, then jump into the pit directly below it. (You have to land in the middle of the pit, or Sonic will die.) After you reach part 3 (when the lighting changes), release the dash and try to land on the floor. It can be done with just a homing attack, but the light dash helps.

 

 

<4. outside the walls of Red Mountain 2> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

The easiest way is to jump off either side of the platform with the capsule and fall toward the mountain. You can turn around and jump up at the start of area 2 instead, but it's a bit harder.

Use the edge of the step as a ramp to go up there and fall out of the tunnel, which connects to nothing.

 

 

<6. above the entrance to Red Mountain> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go to where you got the Ancient Light. Spin dash up the mountain repeatedly until you get through the invisible ceiling. The weak spot is almost directly above the Ancient Light.

Note: On Dreamcast, the wall is slippery, and there's an invisible wall (probably because of the trees). Even if you can get over the wall, you'll fall through the visible walls, which are fake.

 

 

<7. behind the building at the start of Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Spin-dash up the boardwalk and jump right over the invisible wall on the beach.

Move along the edge until you reach the building. It's completely fake on that side.

 

 

<8. above the waterfalls in Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Spin-dash up the wall just past the start of part 2. There's a small ledge to land on.

Also, try jumping out across the pool right there to land on another ledge.

 

 

<9. on the platforms in the water left of the start of Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Get through the wall (#7) and follow it to where you can jump to the platforms.

To get there from later in the level, jump off the back of the platform where E-102

found Froggy and follow the edge of the platform in the same way.

 

 

<10. behind the Speed Highway and Twinkle Park buildings> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

The slope behind the canal place is "sticky", so it's hard to get a good jump. Dash along it, then turn toward the top of the slope and jump. Also, try jumping off the opposite slope to land on the glass-covered tunnel, then jump out toward Twinkle Park. It's probably easier.

 

 

<11. Jump over the flat mountain in Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Right before you enter area 2, jump up to the slope next to the monkey’s platform. Dash and jump over the mountain by using a slope up there, such as the one right above the monkey.

 

 

<12. on top of the super looop in Emerald Coast 2> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Jump through or around the "looop" (or stone tunnel, or whatever). Use its sloped side to jump on top. One of the good sloped sides is at the back, behind the invisible wall. To get behind that, use the ramp. Stand in the middle of that next round sandbar, turn around, and do a big jump toward the ramp. You should go just barely over the invisible wall. Then, jump across to the ramp, and stay on the edge of the sandbar. The third way is to go to the grassy place just before the ramp and use it to get around the wall.

 

 

<13. falling for a long time in Icecap 3> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

When you get to the part with the blue ice pieces that fall over (right after you exit the first cave), jump right to land on the higher ledge. Go under the "arch" up there that's made by the fallen ice, then jump right again. If you get a good, fast jump, you'll land on the slope and go off the top to land on an unfinished floor. Once you go off the edge, you'll keep falling until the sky reappears and you fall below the level of the capsule.

 

 

<14. Skip the roller coaster in Twinkle Park.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

Turn left to avoid falling into the hole in part 1. Charge up a light speed dash, jump straight into the middle of the hole, and release the dash just after you fall out of the hole in the ceiling of part 2 to fall past the coaster. You can use a homing attack instead, but it's a bit harder to do.

 

 

<16. E-102's path in Windy Valley> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

After the wind path, jump left to land on the rounded platform. Dash-jump back to the tunnel with the wall E-102 would have destroyed. The wall is only solid on GC. To follow E-102's path, you'll have to use the sloped edges of the platforms to get high enough jumps to reach the next ledges.

 

 

<18. Sonic breathing underwater?> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

In Lost World, raise the water level and jump down to the bottom.

You'll notice that there is no water in the tunnel that goes back to the start.

Walk toward that entranceway until the water effects over the camera disappear.

Although Sonic is in the water, the picture is clear, and he can't drown.

 

 

<20. falling forever in Red Mountain> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Jump as far as you can into the mountains in the background, and Sonic will fall forever.

The best place to do this is probably the mountain connected to the beginning of the wooden bridge that comes before the part with the unstable rocks that blow Sonic away.

If you're using Free Camera, and you're jumping from the spot I mentioned, switch to Auto while falling. It looks pretty cool. (If done correctly, the camera will look up instead of down.)

 

 

<21. outside Station Square (main area)> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go to the boat that goes to the Egg Carrier. Stand on the slanted wall on the side that appears

to be west on the map (where Big was), and jump off the top of the slope while moving left.

(There should be a lady standing just above the slope if the game is complete.)

If you did it right, Sonic will be behind the hotel. You can explore the "protected" water now. From here, you can play Twinkle Park early if you jump into the bottom of the entrance tunnel. (Watch out for the fake sand under the Twinkle Park tunnel!)

The burger shop statue glitch works, and you can even jump off the roof of a car to get

over the hotel's wall, but it's easiest to just jump off the slope a little bit above the sand.

 

 

<22. on top of the big wall in Windy Valley> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

(This is the wall that Sonic runs down at the end of Windy Valley.) As you run down the slope that leads to the wall, jump to the small, flat platform floating on your right. (I think there are two. Jump to the one that is closer to the wall.) Jump forward, and you can land on top of the wall. Tails can also get here, but the top of the wall is a little more protected.

 

 

<23. behind the counter> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Put the statue of the Burger Shop in the corner and jump over it to slip into the corner near the counter and through the fake floor. Hmm. The people that work there aren't falling!

Note: On Dreamcast, the statue slides out of the way when Sonic should get stuck behind it.

This makes all the statue tricks useless on DC.

 

 

<25. Pause glitches> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

- Don't grab the rings immediately after the roller coaster in Twinkle Park. Instead, jump out the back exit. Go far away from the coaster so it disappears, then go back by using a light-speed dash in the room below the coaster. When you get there, pause the game to make the coaster reappear. This also works with some platforms in Final Egg part 2 and with the red cannons in Sky Chase. (Destroy them, then pause to make them reappear.)

- The thing that Amy wears on her head (that holds the Warrior Feather in place) disappears when you pause.

- The gears that are found all over Red Mountain keep moving while the game is paused.

This works with a few other animations, such as the shrinking hammer (when Amy puts it away).

 

 

 

<26. the balcony on Pleasure Castle> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Jump off the stairs right before the capsule, and you should be able to reach the top of one of the towers. From there, jump over or through the top of the main part of the castle to land on the SOLID balcony at the back. If you jump through the fake part of the castle, you can land in the entrance to the Mirror Room. (but it doesn't go anywhere)

 

 

<27. behind the glass walls of Final Egg 2> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

After you press the button, jump on the main part of the floor as it it gets pulled

away. Sonic will get pulled through the wall with it. Now, jump on any of the platforms

with ladders. (They can be seen from the room with the blue glass and the spiky ball

things.) Some platforms and ladders might cause Sonic to die, as the "death line"

is covering some parts of the area. (He yells "NO!" as if he's falling into a pit.)

 

 

<29. from the end of Lost World to the waterfall (extended edition)> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Before you get into part 3, turn around and jump back over the loop. Do spin dashes and jumps to get through the doors. (The door in the room with the sand is the toughest. Stand on the flat sand just a few feet away from it, and then do a dash and jump straight into it.) Go back to the place where you ran away from the boulder and run back up while jumping over the gaps.

When you reach the top, jump up and left to hit an invisible floor that extends past the fake wall.

(You could also try getting through the door the way you got past the others.)

 

 

<30. E-104 Epsilon's room> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

First, get a shield. At the start of part 2, Jump up into the hole in the ceiling. Now, jump up again and turn back toward where you came from. Fall to the side of the main tunnel, and Sonic will fall into the magma. Keep using spin-dashes and jumps, and you should be able to get into the dome where Epsilon was before Sonic dies. If Epsilon is there, he's buried under the magma. Oh, well. At least you got Sonic in. It's possible to get in from a different side by jumping around the mountain from the capsule, but for some reason, I can't always find the room, even though it should be very close! It seems like the room is disappearing, and it won't appear unless Sonic approaches it from the start or at just the right angle when falling from the capsule area. Try jumping off the left side (if you're looking out toward the mountains in the background and away from the mountain you're standing on).

 

 

<31. Lose twice in pinball.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Charge up a light-speed dash before going into the Nights pinball table.

Let go of the B button while playing, and Sonic won't do a Light Speed Dash until you lose once.

When that happens, he'll automatically shoot off the table, making you lose a second time.

 

 

<32. outside the Egg Carrier (back version)> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Transform the Egg Carrier to separate the front and back. Jump up on the roof of the pool area.

Charge up a light-speed dash and jump toward one of the back corners of the roof.

Sonic will float for a while. When he drops, quickly use a homing attack and release

the light-speed dash to get across to the safe area. (Sonic will die if he falls.)

Dash to the front, use another spin-dash, and jump off the end to land on the blocky,

unfinished copy of the Egg Carrier that looks like the Sky Deck entrance place from a distance.

Note: The walls are different in the Dreamcast version. They seem to be closer, and they don't let

Sonic get out far enough to slip through. It's possible to dash out through the corner of the floor below, but Sonic just dies. Maybe he can reach a safe platform somehow (if there is one).

 

 

<33. under the coins in Casinopolis> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

First, fill up the vault, but don't deposit 400 rings. (I did it with 399, but anything above 300 or 350 should work.) Go in front of the capsule, do a spin dash, and jump forward into the coins.

Sonic should start to fall in. If he does, press A as if to do a homing attack, and he'll fall in completely.

Note: On Dreamcast, there's no invisible ceiling to jam Sonic through the coins.

 

 

<34. Icecap 3 without a snowboard> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

When you reach the end of the level and jump off the snowboard, turn around and go up to the invisible wall. Do spin dashes and jumps while running into the left edge to slip through. If you aim at the right spot, you can use spin dashes to climb the wall before the triple jump ramp place. I don't think the wall at the part with the houses can be climbed, so you'll have to turn around or jump off the side to land at the end.

Alternate: In the tunnel at the start of area 3 (where the timer is frozen), dash into the right corner of the boulder that blocks your path back to area 2 (left if you're facing away from it). If you have trouble with that, look for a fake spot near the wooden gate where you can walk through the left wall. Once you get through, simply fall straight down. Note that you can dash against the boulder to get through on either version, but the other ways only work on on GameCube.

 

 

<35. outside the Egg Carrier (normal version)> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go to the middle of the little gap behind the room with the pool. Dash toward the left or right side of the ship, and Sonic will fall through the border thing and the invisible wall. If you get a Light Speed Dash ready first, you can release it as you get out of the walls to move forward and land safely. (It's still kind of hard.)

Note: On Dreamcast, everything past the walls is fake. Sonic will just fall through, so it's kind of pointless.

 

 

<36. outside the Egg Carrier (front version)> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go to the boat landing near the Sky Deck entrance. (I used the one on the right side.)

Jump around the stairs so you land halfway up. Do a big jump over to the left so you land on the grey area. Run as far toward the back of the ship as you can. When you hit an invisible wall, dash into it so you go through the wall on your right. Keep dashing forward and jump for the green glass. Dash up the edge of that (being careful not to go too far to the side and get pulled back into the regular area) and jump around to the red slope, then to the big, grey slope completely outside the walls. It's possible to jump to the yellow areas that extend toward the front for a good view, but I don't think Sonic can get anywhere else.

Note: Everything past the walls is fake in the Dreamcast version, just like with the normal form of the ship.

 

 

<37. Knuckles's area (and out of the walls) of Casinopolis> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

The hard way is to use the slopes with coin decorations (in front of the vault's entrance) to jump up into the hole in the ceiling, then land on the tiny invisible floor above the corner of the entrance room. From there, you can jump off and die (which is a big waste) or go up into the room where Knuckles goes. The easier way is to go up to the second floor using the ledge above and in front of the vault's entrance. Go to the ship and jump off the cannon to land on the very front. Charge up a Light Speed Dash, then use the X button to do an extra spin dash. Release the B and X buttons, then immediately press and hold A and B to jump forward and slightly right (releasing the B button lets Sonic dash, and holding it again stops Sonic from wasting his dash energy early) and release the Light Dash at the end of your jump to land on the top of the room Knuckles goes into. You can also go up on the beams at the ceiling and land on the spinning thing with all the screens that advertise stuff.

Note: On Dreamcast, Sonic can't land on the cannon because it's not solid. The walls to that room Knuckles goes into are fake, so Sonic can get in there easily after reaching the second floor, but the floor is also fake.

 

 

<38. the keyboard> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

In Sky Deck 2, go to the part where the end of the wing breaks off (about halfway through the level). You can do this before the wing falls, but you should go forward to where the planes are to break it off anyway. Go back and jump off to land on the narrow, slanted ledge that didn't fall off. (There's a red spring at the top.) Run up the slope and jump forward from it. (forward from the slope, but to the right side of the level with Auto Cam) You should land on a platform with 2 slants. Turn toward the tip of the wing and use the slope to jump up. If you jump high enough, you should be able to get over the invisible wall. Run down to the end of that platform

and look around. You'll see a huge, fake, black and white surface that resembles a keyboard.

It's normally hidden behind the red buildings on your right side as you go over the planes' runways.

Note: On Dreamcast, the part of the yellow and grey platform you would land on behind the invisible wall is fake. Charge the Light Speed Dash, do a spin dash with the second Action Button, jump out like on GameCube, and use the Light Speed Dash in the air to land on the red platforms nearby. The "keyboard" is still fake.

 

 

<39. Play the stages in the wrong order.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Start a new game and beat Chaos 0. Instead of going to Emerald Coast, go into the hotel. If you want to, you can do #28 right now. Now, go under the stairs. Do spin dashes and jumps at the right angle, and you'll go up through the walls or down through the floor. (Either way, you can fall through the place that makes Sonic appear outside.) If you turn too far to the left, you'll go up through the stairs, and if you turn too far to the right, you won't get anywhere, so just keep trying to get through. Once you're outside, you can do a bunch of cool tricks, and in just about any order. To get into Casinopolis, use RattleMan's guide. To get into Twinkle Park, use #21 in this guide. After you complete Twinkle Park, you'll be trapped. To escape from the tunnel, go to the elevator Big used. Dash into the left or right side of it to go through the wall. Go through the right side to fall into the Speed Highway place. To get the Light Speed Shoes, dash through the corner of the barrier set up by the police (again, check RattleMan's guide). From there, go over to the black car covering the entrance to the sewer. Dash up the back window of the car and jump onto the wall in front of you. Run up the wall, jump over the one to the right, and do a homing attack under the floor toward the sewer. If you hit the invisible floor, you can get into the sewer and grab the shoes easily. To get into Speed Highway, charge the Light Speed Dash, jump up by the window, do a homing attack toward the right, and use the Light Speed Dash. Sonic should land in the box of the Speed Highway entrance. When you're playing Speed Highway, don't quit or run out of lives. If you do, Sonic will appear in an empty area of Station Square and die. One time, he only died once, and everything became normal, but another time, he kept falling and dying. This could ruin your file if it hasn't been completed yet. Once you've done all that, all you can do is jump over the hotel and play Emerald Coast normally. The cutscenes might play at the wrong times, and people will appear in weird places (like guys are on strike as the trains are still working normally), but you can't glitch up the lighting like with Tails (at least as far as I know).

Note: It's completely different on Dreamcast. To get out of the hotel, jump up between the doors to the room with the Crystal Ring. (See Sonic glitch #28 and Knuckles glitch #13.) To get into Casinopolis, jump over the hotel and use a form of RattleMan's E-102 in Casinopolis trick. Jump on top of the train, jump straight up near the place where the left and middle cars are connected, and go left really quickly to land on top of the train tunnel. From there, use the tunnel as a ramp to jump over the Casino entrance. (This means that you don't have to get the Light Speed Shoes

or complete Windy Valley first, like you would on GameCube.) Twinkle Park's tunnel is solid, so you can't get in there.The city hall area can't be reached because Sonic just bounces off the invisible walls, and that ruins the rest of this section.

 

 

<40. overlap glitches> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Many objects in the Gamecube version draw in the wrong order, making it so the object in the back covers the object in the front. Here are a couple examples:

-First, there's Chaos 6. The middle of him is shown in front of most of the other parts.

-Second, the glass train tunnel that goes over the casino area doesn't make everything behind it look blue. Certain objects, such as the Casino Ken sign, show up in full colour.

-Third, water doesn't always appear the right way. Item boxes are in full colour, and the sand in Emerald Coast sometimes turns dark blue (because the water isn't being drawn over it), making all the footprints disappear.

-The Fourth and weirdest one is in Lost World 2 (the part with the mirrors). The water is only a few feet below the platforms, but some of them show up over the water, which makes the water appear to be far away. Also, another room from later in the stage (the cave with the waterfall) can be seen as a black square on the water when the room is bright enough.

Note: The Dreamcast version is fine. All the glitches are on GameCube. What's really bad is that even an emulator actually works better (at least in some ways) than the GameCube version of Sonic Adventure!

 

 

<41. outside the Perfect Chaos area> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

GameCube: At the start of the battle, turn around and hit the back wall. Slide along it to the right so Sonic slips through. Now, just move left a bit and keep going backward, and you can get out to the edge of the sheet of water.

Dreamcast: Go forward and stay to the left. When you come to a ramp on the left, hit the dash plates and jump as high as you can while heading left into the buildings. The buildings are short enough to jump over.

 

 

<42. above Final Egg 1> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

After you get through the first turning pipe, turn left and use the slanted wall to get on top of the place you came from. Run back up the top of the path and jump through the fake ceiling to land on a solid platform and get a good look around.

 

 

<43. above Final Egg 2> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

At the start of area 2, turn around and run back up the slope. Turn the camera forward again, and use the slanted edges of the tube to jump up and out the end, and then forward to land on top of the tunnel. (The square-shaped part is solid, and so is the rounded top of the main room.) The super jump (using a Light Dash and a Spindash) might help, but you might find it harder to use. Either way, you can use this as another way to reach the ladders behind the walls.

Note: On Dreamcast, there's an invisible wall that will stop you from going back. I don't know why it was removed for GameCube.

 

 

<44. Run on the walls in Station Square.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

(This glitch was submitted by PsyBorg.)

Stand at the very left of the burger shop. Do either a spin dash or a homing attack diagonally into the red awning above the very left window, and Sonic will start to run on the wall. If you can keep his speed up, he can run all the way over to the front of the city hall before falling. If you can go fast enough and run upward at the same time, you can run high and far enough to jump over the city hall and land in the entrance to Speed Highway without having to get the

Light Speed Shoes, but it's very hard and I haven't been able to make it work myself.

Note: For some reason, I found it hard to run toward the city hall on Dreamcast, but easy to run away from it. (Sonic kept falling off.) Anyway, it still works, even though it seems to be harder on DC.

 

 

<45. behind the waterfall in Lost World> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

On GameCube, when you get to the water slide, jump into the tunnel to avoid the spot that makes Sonic start sliding. Walk down to the end, jump out to the left (right if the camera is looking backward), and go behind the waterfall before you land. This also works on Dreamcast (and better), but there's another way for DC players: Play normally until you leave the slide. Do a spin dash, and then jump into the corner at the right side of the waterfall. (opposite from the spot you would fall through using the other trick) You should be able to get through the wall and

go around to the pit behind the waterfall. Strangely, the pit is around 12 feet deep on Dreamcast (maybe a little more), but on GameCube, it's plugged up with boards, so it's very shallow. I don't know why they'd fix something that isn't supposed to be seen clearly and shouldn't be stepped into at all... not to mention that there wasn't anything wrong with it anyway. (They even fixed the invisible wall to make it more difficult for GameCube players to get back there!)

 

 

<46. outside Icecap 1> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Stand on top of the arched doorway that is almost directly above the rocket. Turn toward the lower areas of the mountain and use the sloped doorway to jump up and right. On GameCube, Sonic goes through the wall and can land inside the little cave area across from the stage entrance. On Dreamcast, the wall is solid, but there's another way that works on both versions and is cooler. Go down the main slope to the wall of ice. Stand on the right side (if you're looking toward the top of the mountain) of the bump on the ground (near the trail of rings) and jump up and right to get over the ice wall. Sonic will then fall and die. On GameCube, he falls through the floor, but on Dreamcast, the floor is solid. (He still dies, though.) It seems like most things were originally fake, but they were made solid (or nonexistent) for GameCube. This is a rare exception. (It's also frustrating. I want to get a good look at the incomplete slope down there!)

 

 

<47. outside Icecap 2> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go to the loop near the top of the room (right before the jump panels). Use the loop as a ramp to go straight up and through the ceiling. Be ready to fall back toward the room when Sonic suddenly appears outside. There's an invisible floor inside and outside, and it can be used to get behind the entrance to area 3. (Jump out there, turn around, and dash down the tunnel to make Sonic appear in area 3 and run the wrong way.)

 

 

<48. Open doors in Casinopolis.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

If you dash and jump into a closed door (in the Dilapidated Way) at just the right angle, it will open. This can be used to go backward from the end and take the other paths, and if you use the trick on a certain door in the first room with a giant fan (the one without a trail of rings leading to it), you can get behind it... and then find a blank wall! It must have just been added for detail.

 

 

<49. outside the walls of the captain's room> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

There's a grey bump at each side of the button that makes the Egg Carrier transform.

Jump off the grey bump to hit the yellow vent thing, then do a homing attack into it to appear above the ceiling. It's easy to just fall off it and die, but it's also possible to land there and look around. If Sonic falls through the wall and gets stuck, slide him over to the left to make him land, then run right and go through the door.

 

 

<50. above part of Lost World 1> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

When you get to the pipe with the flaming box things that pop up, turn around and go to the side of the narrow place you came from. Use the curved walls to jump up, into the side walls, and in the direction of the start of the level. You should be able to go up through the corner and land on a platform up there to look around.

 

 

<51. Tails's areas of Speed Highway>

 

Instead of running into the building to Going Down, turn left (right, if you're looking out away from the building) and jump out toward Tails's area. When you seem to come to a dead end, use the super-long jump explained in #37 to get out to the corner of the huge, long building. This is very hard to do. You can reach another building like this by jumping off the platform right before the chain of purple, spinning robots that leads to the 1up (the small square floating above the round building before Going Down). You need the same super-long jump to get out there, but it's much easier.

 

 

<52. Change gravity in Lost World!> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Simply restart while standing on the lit wall panels near the end of the stage.

You can get the gravity to pull Sonic in different directions by using panels on the other walls.

Experiment with the different checkpoints to fly out to different places.

 

 

Tails

 

 

<1. the empty room in At Dawn> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Fly into Going Down to reach At Dawn and fly to the capsule. Turn away from the capsule

and fly forward to a tunnel that zig-zags through the building. Fly above and beside the tunnel

and drop into the top of the building. There's a solid floor on the closer side, but the other side is fake.

 

 

<2. Sonic can't die.> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

In Sky Deck, go to where the cannon blasts the path. Get it to knock out all 3 levels

of the same section. When Sonic comes through, he will fall off the cliff because

he has nowhere to go. After he falls, he will land on the path ahead of you!

Note: On Dreamcast, the cannon doesn't attack the highest path. It just sits there and watches Tails run past it.

 

 

<4. the other end of the canal> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Use any trick to get behind the walls of Station Square. (Use the burger shop statue to get through the corner of the station, for example.) Fly around the back of the Twinkle Park building and land at the end of the tunnel.

Note: The burger shop statue can't push anyone through the walls in the Dreamcast version,

so if Tails can get into the back of the canal, it's by a different way.

 

 

<5. Big's elevator to Twinkle Park> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Jump up through the ceiling near the window of the city hall and float down into the sewer. (Also see #15.) Jump, as if to go back to the surface, and fly around to Big's part of the sewer.

Note: Again, the glitch that lets Tails go outside of the walls doesn't work on Dreamcast.

If you can find a different way to get into the sewer, then maybe this will work.

(But still, Sonic can't get into Big's part of the sewer. If Tails can, it's because he can fly higher and go right out the top of the solid pipe. Sonic can only reach the lower part of the pipe, so he has to jump through.)

 

 

<6. outside the casino area> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Drop the burger shop statue on the stairs inside the station. I use the left side. (looking from the entrance) If it's near the corner, Tails can jump over it, slip through the wall, and land on an invisible floor. Fly to the box that contains the exit, land on it for a second, and fly to the tunnel other side. Tails can stand inside the tunnel on the right side, but he falls through the part that goes above the casino.

Fly to the left side and land on the top. It's solid, even though the floor of the same tunnel isn't.

Note: On Dreamcast, you'll have to use the glitch in RattleMan's guide. Jump on top of the train, run forward as if to fall off on the other side, jump near the part where the cars connect, and fly to the left if you're on the left or right if you're on the right to get above or into the train tunnel. His guide also includes a trick that works on either version, and with Sonic or Tails: Use the very first steps outside the station as a ramp to jump up and reach the top of the glass tunnel.

(That last one is my favourite.)

 

 

<7. the "glass" floor in Speed Highway> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

While flying through the green hoops at the end (turn sharply right when you hit the one that's tilted up) look for a short building on the right side. Tails can stand on it, even though there's no visible floor. There are terrible overlapping texture glitches below him, where the buildings connect (GameCube version).

 

 

<8. the cutscene that never ends> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Start a new game, do #6, jump from the top of the tunnel, fly over the casino wall, and land in Casinopolis. He gets trapped behind the door as he tries to walk out when you beat the level (right before Robotnik comes). Just press the start button when that happens to skip it. This will get you stuck in the casino area, but you can just fly into the station by hitting the middle of the door and zig-zagging.

Note: Remember that you can't press start on Dreamcast. If you use DC, this will ruin your file.

The door is solid on DC, but you can run up the steps and jump up to the top of the train tunnel on either version.

 

 

<9. the entrance to the Dilapidated Way> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

If you stand on the pipe above the start and jump in just the right spot (near the corner), you can go right through the ceiling. When you do that, fly to the place you saw on your right when you started the stage. There are items in the tunnel, and it seems like it was meant to be the place they got dumped into from the pinball machines, but the start was moved ahead to the slightly weird spot that it's in now. I played the stage in Adventure mode on Dreamcast, and I heard the sound of losing in pinball before the stage started. When I had only played GameCube, I noticed that it took too long to get the stage started, and I guessed that it was moving Tails to the new starting point in that extra time. It looks like I was right. It seems like he starts earlier in Casinopolis, falls out of the pinball table, and appears above the real start point before the black screen goes away.

Note: The tunnel is there on both versions, but it doesn't seem like Tails can get in there on Dreamcast. I somehow almost landed on the pipe Tails jumps from on GameCube. If that can be done, maybe he can get through.

 

 

<10. in Icecap early> (GC:yes, DC:no)

Instead of going to the workshop and fighting Robotnik, go to the cliff beside the station, fly into the edge of Angel Island, and head toward the blocked-off tunnel. To get inside the ice cave place, jump on the little lock thing and try to fall into the wall. Start flying just as Tails falls through to reach the entrance area for Icecap.

Note: An invisible wall blocks off the space behind the ice lock pedestal thing on Dreamcast.

 

 

<11. the trolley car tunnel> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Fly around the wall (as if to land in the tunnel for #10), but try to land in the little pit at the end of the tunnel instead. The wind coming from the floor will push Tails up and out of the cave, and he'll be able to reach the other tunnel.

Note: It's really easy on Dreamcast! On GameCube, you have to hit the bottom of the little pit in just the right way, but Dreamcast’s collision mapping is easier to deal with.

 

 

<12. outside the Egg Carrier (back version)> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

It's like Sonic's #32, except easier. Jam Tails into the invisible floor behind the place with the pool area.

Note: On Dreamcast, the invisible wall is closer, so he can't go far enough back to fall through.

 

<13. FMA scene with the wrong lighting> (GC:yes, DC:no?)

 

When you start the game, go to the city hall and jump up in front of the window to get inside the wall. Fly into the little room to play the Speed Highway stage. Play the game normally after this, and complete all of the Egg Carrier stuff. Tails and Amy will float down into the square at night instead of in the evening. Note to self: THIS NEEDS TO BE CHECKED MORE

 

 

<16. outside the Egg Carrier (normal version)> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

You can do Sonic's #35, but you have to jump on the corner of the orange border instead of dashing through. It's easier because Tails can fly. To get outside the front of the same form of the Egg Carrier, you can use a new glitch. Go to a boat landing area. (I used the one on the right.) Jump around to the middle of the stairway and fly toward the ship's front. Fall and turn toward the middle of the deck so you land in the corner under the stairs. Keep flying forward, and Tails should slip past the invisible wall.

Note: Tails just can't fall through the place behind the pool in the Dreamcast version.

He can get through the spot under the stairs, but everything out there is fake.

 

 

<17. outside the Egg Carrier (front version)> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go to one of the boat landing areas. (I use the one on the ship's right side.) Jump beside the stairs and turn to land halfway up. Jump off the stairs and turn in the direction of the Sky Deck's entrance, then fly along the side of the Egg Carrier and land on the grey ledge. From there, just fly out and back toward the ship to land on the other side of the invisible wall, then use the slopes to jump all the way up to the sloped front of the back area, the yellow part that extends toward the front, and even the top of the room with the pool. This might take a few tries. Don't worry too much about getting pulled back into the walls. You can land on the edge of the green glass safely, then go to the red slope above that.

Note: Like #16, this one is limited. If you fly out to the front, you'll fall through everything.

If you fly toward the back and the low-quality model, the platforms that would help you get there are also fake.

 

 

<18. Icecap without a board> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Play through the Sub Game version of Icecap. When you reach the end, turn around and go to the left side of the invisible wall. Fly as high as you can while pushing toward the slope. If you hit the real wall in the right spot, Tails will get pushed through by the invisible wall's edge. From there, just swerve around to the slope and land. To get higher up on the mountain, fly to the triple jump area first, then fly back to the cave section. So far, it doesn't seem like Tails can get past the part with the houses. If it's possible with anyone, it's probably Sonic.

 

 

<19. outside the walls of Station Square> (GC:no, DC:yes)

 

Get a running start and jump onto the awning to the right of the newspaper stand. Quickly jump again and fly up into the corner above the stand. Push into the wall that isn't part of the station to go through. You can get around the police cars blocking the road easily, and you can also get inside the back of the station, although it's difficult to fly this way and land on the small floor under the station. This also works in the city hall area. Go up into the corner to the left of the burger shop.

Note: Tails can push into the walls on GameCube, but it doesn't seem like he can get all the way through.

 

 

Knuckles

 

 

<1. See Knuckles underground.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

There are many places to do this. One way is to dig into the edge of a platform. Try this at the place with the Master Emerald. Another way is to put the camera outside of the walls of an area with a soft floor. I've done it in the sandy place (near the exit from Sonic's area) in Lost World.

 

 

<2. the three tunnels> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

This is like Tails's #11, but a bit harder. Aim for the very bottom of the pit, and Knuckles should go in through the seam. From there, jump up to get caught by a crazy wind current, and you'll be able to reach the tunnels that go to the jungle, the Chao Garden, and Station Square.

 

 

<3. below the workshop> (GC:yes, DC: no)

 

Jump off the cliff and float back in through a fake part of the wall to reach the workshop.

There's a floor under the workshop and the stone floor of the pool in front of it.

Note: I can't make this work on Dreamcast. This needs to be tested a bit more.

 

 

<5. Get into Speed Highway without damaging the barrier.>

 

Jump up on top of the wall beside the barrier. Go to the right edge and try to glide toward the city hall. (not toward the corner) Because the doors can't open, you'll have to either glide all the way to the spot behind the doors, or you can land safely in front of the hall and jump up in front of the window to get through the wall and behind the doors.

 

 

<6. outside the Egg Carrier prison> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Stand in front of Amy's cell, turn around, and climb the wall directly across from it. With a combination of jumping, gliding, and climbing, you should be able to get up through the walls.

Note: I'm not even sure if Knuckles can get into the prison area on Dreamcast.

 

 

<8. Sonic's path in Lost World> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go to the room with a sandy floor near where Sonic escaped from the boulder. Jump above the door that goes back to the main room and climb to the top-right corner. Keep gliding into the corner until Knuckles goes through. Once you get inside the wall, glide around the wall

to the room with the boulder. From there, you can go all the way back to the beginning of Sonic's area or climb over the walls of the room to reach the room with the capsule.

Note: This doesn't work on Dreamcast, but there's another trick in RattleMan's guide that works.

 

 

<9. outside Casinopolis> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go up to the top of the box-shaped room with the red button and climb onto the beam that goes across the top of the stage. Run toward the spot where they connect, and look for the 4 poles that go to the ceiling. Choose the pole that is at the back and right, and climb up the side that is the front from your view. (If it doesn't work, try all the other sides of the other poles.) Keep zig-zagging up the pole, and you should be able to reach and even go right through the ceiling.

 

 

<10. Big's part of the sewer>

 

Use #5 to get into the sewer. Jump up, climb through the hole in the ceiling, and glide around the crate. Note: This may not work on Dreamcast, although I haven’t tested it yet. There are more solid walls in the sewer on Dreamcast, and this has already caused a problem for Sonic.

 

 

<11. inside Red Mountain> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go up to the top of the highest mountain (the one with the entrance to RM2). Go to the green ledge with the Kiki (the monkey robot) and grab the wall below it. Climb up as high as you can and move to the left of the green ledge. Jump, turn a bit right, and glide, and you should go right through into the mountain. Inside it, there's not much to do. You can get into the entrance pipe to part 2, but because Knuckles's stage is actually separate from Sonic's (not just the same stage, with different objects), it won't get you anywhere.

 

 

<12. outside the Egg Carrier> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Some of the glitches for Sonic and Tails also work for Knuckles. Tails #16 is possible, but Sonic #35 isn't, so you can only explore the front of the ship (because Knuckles is bigger, and he keeps trying to climb the walls every time I try to make him fall into the corner behind the pool area). In Adventure mode, you can use Sonic glitch #32 (which is Tails #12) to get through the walls behind the pool when the Egg Carrier is transformed. Unfortunately, there are invisible walls that only affect Knuckles out there.

Note: Most tricks should work on Dreamcast, but some don't, and even the ones that do are mostly useless. See the Sonic and Tails sections for more information.

 

 

<13. Knuckles in Emerald Coast> (GC:no, DC:yes)

 

Open the doors to the Crystal Ring, then glide through before they close. Hit the button inside there to open the doors, then stand between them, jump straight up, and glide out to the side to land on a floor outside the walls of the hotel. (I glide toward the casino area, then use L and R while slowly walking away from the room to pull the camera out.) From there, you can glide to Emerald Coast easily. This glitch also works with Sonic, Tails, and E-102 (and it's easier than it is with Knuckles, because they can land on the doors as they close, and then jump away after that).

Note: Sonic can jump under the stairs, Tails can fly up through the corner of the building near the pool, and Knuckles and Amy can use the burger shop statue to get outside the walls on GameCube, but there's a ceiling above where you would jump to do the Dreamcast glitch. Because of this, getting outside the walls with any character is easy on Dreamcast, but at least a bit hard on GameCube.

 

 

<14. out of the walls of Sky Deck> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

At the start, turn around and run up the wall. Jump on top of the invisible slope that covers the yellow pipes and the gap between them. From there, run up and glide over to one of the walls along the sides of the stage. Grab the highest part of the wall and go into the top corner. Jump and glide against the wall. If it's done right, the controller will rumble and Knuckles will start gliding in a set direction even if you don't press any direction on the control stick. Often, this direction is toward the wall, and he will automatically go through. After he gets through, hold A and be prepared for him to suddenly start gliding normally. (If this takes too long, release A and hold it again.) With this, you can get on top of the thing that blocks off the exit to the pool, inside the fake rooms where the robots can be seen cleaning, or behind any of the closed doors.

If you have trouble with this, try jumping on top of the platform that would have a button that tilts the ship. Get up to the very top of it, then glide into the corner between the slope of the platform and the invisible ceiling.

 

 

 

Amy

 

 

<1. outside the walls of Station Square's hotel> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Throw the burger shop statue into the room where Sonic got the Crystal Ring.

Go under the ledge with the red buttons and swing the hammer through it to hit the button and open the door. Quickly run and use a hammer jump to get up to the door before it closes.

Use the statue to get through the corner and land on the entrance to the casino area.

Note: Amy can get into Emerald Coast on both versions, but I don't think she can get anywhere else outside of the hotel area (like to the walls that are painted to look like Station Square).

 

 

<2. part of Big's area of Hot Shelter> (GC:no, DC:yes)

 

Do a hammer jump off the platform with the "emergency drainage switch" and aim for the top of the higher door. (It's off to the right side of the room.) The top half of the door is fake, so you can go through it into one of the towers that Big can reach after he pulls the plug. There's no water, so you'll have to just turn around and jump back over the door. If there was water (and I think Amy would have to jump higher also), she'd be able to explore the 2nd floor

of the Hot Shelter: the extra fish tanks and the places above the earliest part of the stage.

Note: On GameCube, the door seems to be completely solid. Amy just bounces off. This also deserves some more investigation, in case I did this on Chankast (I don't remember).

 

 

<3. behind the entrance to the Mirror Room> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Go past the balloon and run up the steps to the last parts of the stage (where only Sonic can go).

When you go as far up as the invisible wall will let you, keep running and start sliding over to the wall on the left. You'll fall through, and you can land behind the doors to the Mirror Room.

Also, if you hammer jump at the Mirror Room exit (from outside) and land in the corner, you can slip through and die. This doesn't seem to have any use, but I'm wondering if there could be something better. For now, try #4.

Note: If you fall behind the Mirror Room doors with this glitch, and play through the Mirror Room again, you can, naturally, still perform the same trick again. Doing laps around Twinkle Park might not seem like anything special, but if you keep looping around, you'll get some strange performance issues. On GameCube, the framerate gets worse and worse each time you go past the mirrors. On Dreamcast, you'll get basically the same thing, but the transparency effects will start to get really broken. Eventually, the game will lock up.

 

 

<4. Sonic's area of Twinkle Park>

 

Get ZERO to chase you over to the right corner just before the long slope with the spiked balls.

You'll notice that Sonic's path and the entrance to the merry-go-round are just past the invisible wall. Now, hit ZERO in just the right way to make him land very close to the corner. Jump over him and try to get between him and the front wall, and you might be able to fall through it and into Sonic's area. This can be done on the ledge to the left of the start of the stage, but all it seems to do is kill Amy. (The ring-shaped platform around the edge of the merry-go-round is solid, but she can't quite reach it.)

 

 

 

Big

 

 

<1. the mystery of the hotel> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Start a new game and play until you get the Life Belt. Do not complete Ice Cap. Go back to Station Square instead. Take the statue from the burger shop and use it to get into the "protected" water past the beach. I did it near where the boat to the Egg Carrier appears later in the game. Look at the place between the 2 sets of stairs. See how part of the grey brick platform extends to the east (toward Twinkle Park)? Drop the statue on the southeast corner of that. (Stand just barely on the sand and face the corner of the "extension".) Jump over the statue and land in

the corner behind it. If you move him around a bit, Big should go through the invisible wall. Dodge the walls around the boat landing area, and you'll be free to swim anywhere you want (but you can do that anytime). For now, go to the hotel. Put Big directly under the east side of the box that makes the hotel entrance and hold A until Big hits the fake floor. Let go of A, and he'll pop up inside the hotel. Inside the hotel, there's some weird stuff that seems

to be something from the prototype. Compare this to how the place looks normally, and you'll see how weird it is.

Note: The burger shop statue glitch doesn't work on Dreamcast, so you'll have to find a different way to get outside the walls and into the ocean (if there is one).

 

 

<2. outside the walls of Icecap> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

There are many ways to get outside the walls. You can use one boulder to go through the corner (like with the statue), or you can use 2 boulders to push yourself through just about any flat wall in the level! Here's a good spot to try it: Follow Sonic's path up to the ledge with the small pool, dive into it, and walk through the tunnel. When you come up inside the other big room, hop over to the nearby pool that's covered with ice. Take the boulder from there, look down for another boulder, and jump down to it. Hop up the path a bit until you find a flat wall next to a pool. Drop the first boulder right beside the wall (and make sure it doesn't move). Now, take the second boulder and walk in between the wall and boulder (as far in as you can get). Turn away from the wall and drop the boulder. They should bounce off each other and slam Big through the wall.

Tap A a couple times while moving forward into the wall to pull the camera through (at least with Free Camera). You should be able to find 2 layers of water, with a cube of water between them. There's even a spot where you can go up to a 3rd layer. If you move back and forth, you can make the halves of Icecap appear and disappear. If you try fishing, your lure will keep sinking until the counter reaches 99 and stops going.

Note: On Dreamcast, the boulders don't bounce off each other, so there's no force that gets Big through the walls. I haven't tried shoving Big through corners yet, so that could still be possible, though not in the best part of Icecap.

 

 

 

E-102 Gamma

 

<1. Sonic's path in Windy Valley> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

From the start, walk forward a bit and jump out toward a little platform with a spring.

After stepping on the spring, float forward in the level until you reach Sonic's wind path.

Another way is to hit the spring at the end of the stage and float backward.

 

 

<2. past E-103 Delta> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Do #1, but don't drop to go through the gate. Keep flying until you reach the high ledge just past E-103. You can jump out to the platform with the tornado, but E-102 will just barely miss landing on it.

Note: On Dreamcast, the place where the tornado starts is fake. Also, most of the other platforms that aren't part of at least one character's path are fake, even though they are easy to reach.

 

 

<3. Freeze time and go through the Hot Shelter repeatedly.> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

At the end of the stage, instead of falling into E-105 Zeta's area, jump forward and land at Amy's goal. Go to the end of the platform and stop in the doorway. Jump out there and turn right. If you hover straight out there, you should be able to get through the walls of a red, cylinder-shaped room and land on the button that changes the path of the bridge. Because time stopped before you went into Zeta's room, you can explore the level as much as you want. You can't go back to the room with the gears this way, but you can reach it if instead of going into the red cylinder, you go around the left side, land in Amy's area (or what little of it there is), and jump through the walls to the gear room. If you go back into the cargo train without dying or restarting, you'll automatically skip to the end of it.

Note: There's an invisible wall stopping him from jumping to Amy's goal area on Dreamcast.

 

 

<4. die on land> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

In Emerald Coast, jump past Froggy and land on the edge of the floor. Move out just a bit, drop for a fraction of a second, and hover back. You can also make E-102 die this way by getting outside of the Egg Carrier's boundaries and walking into certain areas protected by "death lines". He just says "Mission failed!", and the screen goes black as he walks around safely.

Note: You can't explore the places outside the invisible walls of the Egg Carrier on Dreamcast.

The Emerald Coast way works just fine on either version.

 

<6. I wasn't done talking!> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go to the lady in Station Square who stands beside the road and talks about the crashed Egg Carrier. Stand on the very edge of the curb and do a big jump straight up. Press B and go right just as you land. If you time it right, you can fall off the curb just as she starts talking. The text will stay on the screen until you go to another level (other parts of Station Square are okay, though) or press a button twice. If you walk into another area (such as the city hall place), you'll be able to pause, even though it'll still be there.

Note: I'm pretty sure it can't work on Dreamcast. It's not even really easy on GameCube, though.

I plan to test this more. If you know what it should look like, you can try it on Dreamcast anyway.

 

<7. outside Station Square> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

First, stand on the curb by the beach in rolling mode. (The quickest, easiest way is to step into the green water in the canal, and then jump off to the spot beside the Twinkle Park elevator.) Next, roll along the tiled slope that goes between the road and the sand. (Make sure you stay close enough to the elevator. If you are too far away, you'll get caught by the invisible walls. If you roll along the slope the right way, you can go right through the invisible wall and land on the edge of the beach. From there, you can hover around the walls at the boat landing. You won't actually land on the beach, but if you press forward, hold A, and slide left and right a bit, you should be able to get back up onto the sand. Now, you can get to the hotel with a very good jump (right from the edge of the sand), and if you land on the left side of the box, you can jump off again to get behind the station. I tried going the other way after getting through the wall, and I landed at the end of the flat platform which is the edge of the canal, but I couldn't get around to the back because the invisible wall that goes over the blue walls extends a bit past the corner. It still might be possible to reach the back of the canal.

 

 

<8. outside the Hot Shelter> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Glitch #3 will get you outside the walls, but only when you're closer to the bottom of the stage.

This one is much better. First, you might want to stop time using #3. It takes longer, but it'll let you take as much time as you need to do this trick. Now, go through the cargo train area. When the train stops, go over to the back-left (if you're looking forward) corner of the track while in rolling mode and try to push toward the end of the room while sliding into the wall. (You should be just a few inches past the black slope on the wall.) When he falls through, you can go anywhere you want because the end of the train area is so high up. The easiest way is to look for

the top of E-105 Zeta's room and go from there to the red cylinder place. You can get all the way back to the washrooms or into the pipe Amy used to go from area 1 to area 2, but if you go too close to the start, E-102 will suddenly freeze (probably waiting for the elevator at the start), and you'll have to press B+X+Start to reset.

 

 

<9. E-102 in the casino area> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Go into the station and get into rolling mode. (Run beside the train to build up speed most easily.) Go to the left of the closed door to the casino and push into the corner. If you keep pressing, he'll fall through the floor once you hit the right angle. Once that happens, hover left and go through the walls of the casino street toward the end with the hotel. Casinopolis can't be opened this way.

Note: On Dreamcast, E-102 bounces off the corner and can't fall through, but there's a better glitch that also gets him into Casinopolis in RattleMan's guide.

 

 

 

THE CHALLENGES

 

This guide was originally a list of challenges. Later, I added the answers to some of the challenges to make this into a glitches guide. Many challenges got cut (just for being lame and having nothing to do with glitches), and now they are kept in this section. (Except for time challenges. If you want those, just go to Cyberscore or The Sonic Center.)

 

 

Sonic

 

<1. Be at the start of Windy Valley while the sky is dark.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Walk up to the grate at the end to make the tornado appear. Use a light speed dash

below the nearby bridge to land on a small platform. Spin-dash and jump to go back a

bit more. Do one more jump toward the wind path's gate , and you should be able to reach the

start easily. If you go to the end, the tornado will be gone because it isn't displayed from that distance.

 

 

<5. Skip the zip lines in Red Mountain> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Jump forward past the first one (marked by a funny-looking system of pulleys and weights) and land on the huge rock pillar. Turn left and jump forward to land on the checkpoint far below. Continue normally. When you get to the green spiral path around the big mountain, jump off at the third set of rings to land at the entrance of part 2.

 

 

<15. Get from the capsule at the end of Emerald Coast to the start of part 2.>

 

Go back to the beginning of the sandbar and use the sloped edge of the sandbar

to jump into the hole in the pillar. From here, carefully jump up the path to the spiked gates.

If you're not careful (and even if you are), Sonic will suddenly dash forward or backward.

Jump to keep him under control, and try not to walk, run, or dash at all.

Jump down to the beach and dash-jump up the slope to avoid the boosters.

Dash-jump twice to reach the speed ramp thing, and follow the path backward to reach the start.

 

 

<17. Get from the first spiked gate to the start of Emerald Coast.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

You'll need to do a long jump from the second checkpoint to reach E-102's goal area.

From there, jump up and around the invisible wall, then follow the edge of the platform until you

get to the wood platforms mentioned in #9. To get around the final wall, move to the right.

(You can get through the wall and reach the start if you slide over to where the ring containers are.)

 

 

 

<19. Get from the end of Emerald Coast 1 to the beginning of the boardwalk.>

 

First, jump off from the lighthouse and land on the edge of the sandbar.

Jump toward the boardwalk. Try to land on the tip of the ramp, or you'll have to start over. Do the same for the next jump, and jump over the corners so the whale doesn't appear. It may be possible to reach the start of the level from here, but I haven't been able to do it yet.

 

 

<24. Hit the button late in Final Egg 2, then go back to the start.> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

This is hard. Carefully jump into the pipes without hitting the springs. Inside the pipes, you'll have to spin-dash to keep Sonic from running back. After each pipe, you'll probably have to use a light-speed dash to jump back up into the main room.

 

 

<28. Get the Crystal Ring before playing Emerald Coast!> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Step on the button to open the door, then jump across from the top of the stairs.

With a bit of practice, this way is easier than the real way!

Unfortunately, it doesn't give Sonic the Light Speed Dash. He still has to get the shoes.

 

 

- Stand on the top of the tower in the Mystic Ruins jungle.

 

- Stand on the pipe that leads to Twinkle Park.

 

- Get out of the "trap" in Final Egg 1. (It's the big pit with lots of ring boxes and conveyor belts.)

This could be super-easy or super-hard, depending on how you play.

 

- Open the door in the room with the snake in Lost World, then run back to the start of the stage.

 

- Stand on the top of the wall near the end of Windy Valley. (to the left of the grate before the tornado)

 

- Beat the Egg Viper with only 2 platforms left and survive.

 

- At the first ramp in Emerald Coast, get over to the second check point without stepping on the booster thing

on the ramp that speeds Sonic up. (Hmm. I should see how many ramps this trick can be done with.)

 

 

 

Tails

 

 

<14. four 1up boxes> (GC:yes, DC:untested)

 

Use the Trial Mode glitch (see RattleMan's guide) to get into Final Egg. In the room before Sonic's goal (where he uses the trail of rings), look for a big hole in the ceiling. There are ladders leading to a small room with 1up boxes at the top. Oddly enough, this is present in Sonic's stage, but not E-102's. Sonic can get up there by using a very slow moving platform. As for why it's so slow, maybe Sega meant for that to be the puzzle. That, or they just forgot to make it move faster.

Note: See mystery #6 for a bit more on this.

 

 

<15. a super-close look at Cream> (GC:yes, DC:no)

 

Fly up under the corner of the pool area after being rescued by Sonic and play Casinopolis early.

To escape, go to the station and fly through the door. Try flying at the middle of the door and zig-zagging. Later, when you're supposed to go to the casino, a cutscene will start right when Tails gets out of the train. Cream only appears if you go in front of the Casino. You can quit and reload the game for more tries if you miss. To get the best view, slowly walk toward the casino until she flies out of the alley. Run to the steps of the station, jump, and fly above the Casino Ken sign. If you put the camera in exactly the right spot, Cream will fly right through it. This is pretty hard to do.

Note: Cream is only in DX. THIS NEEDS TO BE CHECKED MORE

 

- Stand on the building to the right of the first green hoops at the start of Speed Highway.

 

- Go to the capsule in Sky Deck, then go back and shoot out of the cannon at the start a second time.

 

 

 

Knuckles

 

<4. backward through Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Start by jumping off at the lighthouse and gliding to where the whale is. To get back from the start of the boardwalk, jump to the left of the double loop and grab the wall with all the "windows". The rest is mostly like Sonic's #19.

 

 

<7. Tails's Adventure Field emblem>

 

You can dig up the emblem in front of the city hall easily. It's so easy that it might not be a glitch. Another way to get it is by using glitch #5 to get outside the walls, then gliding just below the ground.

 

 

 

E-102 Gamma

 

 

<5. back to the start of Emerald Coast> (GC:yes, DC:yes)

 

Jump off the platform with Froggy and land behind the invisible walls. Go back to the spring that launches Gamma out to the last stretch of sand. Jump into it and hover back to the loop or the boardwalk. The rest should be easy.

 

- Go from the spring near E-103 to Sonic's starting point in Windy Valley.

 

 

 

EXTRA CHALLENGES

 

To do with holding the controller the wrong way (for those who are really bored).

These ones are staying, because there's no other place that has them.

They're pretty old, so I might play a bit and come back to update them soon (soon, like within 5 years).

 

- Get through Emerald Coast as Sonic using only your feet. (My record is under 6 minutes.)

- Get through Final Egg as Sonic while holding the controller upside-down. (under 4'10")

- Get through Emerald Coast as Sonic while holding the controller upside-down. (under 4 minutes)

- Try to beat the times I got using one hand: (Choose the left or right hand, but don't use or switch between both in a single run. I used my right.)

 

 

 

One-hand times (likely outdated):

 

Sonic

 

Emerald Coast- 1'44"93

Windy Valley- 1'43"70

Casinopolis- 3'00"90

Icecap- 2'21"08

Twinkle Park- 1'48"63

Speed Highway- 1'40"23

Red Mountain- 2'14"60

Sky Deck- 2'42"56

Lost World- 2'40"48

Final Egg- 2'06"61

 

Tails

 

Windy Valley- 0'25"96

Casinopolis- 0'18"96

Icecap- 1'47"80

Sky Deck- 0'28"18

Speed Highway- 0'54"35

 

Knuckles

 

Speed Highway- 0'19"90

Casinopolis-

Red Mountain-

Lost World-

Sky Deck-

Amy

 

Twinkle Park- 1'28"55

Hot Shelter- 3'48"03

Final Egg- 1'31"10

 

E-102 Gamma

 

Final Egg- 4'50"45

Emerald Coast- 2'52"18

Windy Valley- 6'32"78

Red Mountain- 3'23"00

Hot Shelter- 2'51"23

 

 

 

RANDOM FACTS

 

These are just little details and glitches I noticed that don't really fit anywhere else.

 

 

- In the Chao Garden, the camera can push stuff around (like fruit and Chao eggs). As far as I can see, this only works in the DX version.

 

- Because unlocking a Game Gear game stops the screen from going black, weird things can happen. In Lost World, if you charge up a Light Speed Dash and then do a homing attack into the edge of the capsule, Sonic will fall off (like in any level) and land in the water. Although he can already drown, the Game Gear unlockable can make it easier (usually, you need a high enough score). In Sky Chase 1, the camera can go out through the sky dome and into "outer space". In the Chao Race, it can cut through objects and show the character hiding somewhere under the floor.

 

- In Icecap, Snowy Mountain (area 1) is like a copy of the snowboarding slope. The sky usually covers it up, but a big part of the mountain can be seen with Action Replay. In the prototype of SA, there was a bridge in Snowy Mountain. Now, there's a rocket, but if you look around while escaping from the avalanche, you can see that the bridge is in its place. Snowy Mountain was changed, but area 3 wasn't for some reason.

 

- The avalanche starts looking like a river of snow, but the front detaches and becomes a snowball that rolls down the mountain. The small sky normally covers the gap between the parts of the avalanche.

 

- In Station Square, the Twinkle Park building is blue and yellow on GameCube, and it's two shades of yellow on Dreamcast. If you can get outside the walls of the hotel area and stand on the flat picture of the square, you'll see the yellow building, no matter which version you're playing. SEGA forgot to change the picture for GC.

 

- There are some funny glitches with the character models. Because some characters' eyes are connected in the middle, a white sheet is used to make the eyes. (Sonic's eyes are a waste of polygons.) The top and bottom halves of Big aren't connected, and when he bends over, a crack appears between them. Most characters' legs and tails aren't connected, and they move around too much (Sonic's legs sometimes go through his stomach- see his cutscene before Emerald Coast). When Sonic jumps or performs a spin dash, he looks almost like he did on Dreamcast (except his joints are missing).

 

- As Tails, fly around in the Chaos 4 battle. If you head toward where the ocean should be, you'll see just the purple emptiness that's outside of and below the sky.

 

 

- If Amy restarts from the Mirror Room (inside the castle) in Twinkle Park , the timer keeps going.

Note: I noticed that it only happens once. For example, if the timer is at 20 when you enter the castle, and you restart at 22, it will still be 22 when you reappear at the entrance. If you wait 5 seconds and restart again at 27, it'll go back to 22. You can restart immediately after entering to make it safe to restart while time-attacking. (However, it wastes part of a second, so the very best runs can't use restarts.)

 

- If Amy dies or restarts after leaving the Mirror Room (without touching the real checkpoint near the door), she gets sent back to the very beginning of the stage. Since area 3 is the same as area 1 for Amy (she goes from Pleasure Castle to the Mirror Room and back to Pleasure Castle), she goes to the beginning of area 1 (the starting point) when she dies in area 3.

 

- The reflections on the front of the city hall in SADX don't match the buildings. The textures on the buildings have been changed for GameCube, but the reflections show Dreamcast textures on everything.

 

- It seems that I forgot to mention this earlier: In the Mystic Ruins station area, Tails's Workshop, the station platform, and the little building near the entrance to the jungle look different on GameCube. But in the Egg Hornet battle on GameCube, they all look like they did on the Dreamcast version. You can also get a pretty good view of the top floor of the workshop with the "FIN" ending screen.

 

-Speaking of the ending screens... they reveal quite a bit of leftover Dreamcast graphics- old textures, blocky/chubby models, etc. As was mentioned above, Tails's ending clearly shows the old workshop design. Also, watch Knuckles's ending and watch for the trees around the Master Emerald's altar.

 

-Emerald Coast 1 has very little real water. If you jump into the water in any place other than above the sand floors, there won't be a splash. If you put the camera underwater, the view will be completely clear (GC:not wavy, DC: not blue) unless the camera is above the sandbar. This is why E-102 Gamma and (with Action Replay) Big can't float in this stage, and the reason seems to be just that. If there was real water, Gamma would be able to float out to Sonic's area.

(And in the Dreamcast version, there are some bits of real water out there which can let that happen.)

 

-Emerald Coast has two suns. I’m not kidding. Just go see for yourself.

 

 

 

 

THE MYSTERIES

 

These are weird things I noticed in the game. They seem to tell a lot about what the prototype was like. (Remember that most of these are just guesses based on clues in the game.)

 

 

<1. the checkpoints>

 

Did you notice how there's almost always an extra checkpoint at the start of each area?

It looks like SEGA set the game to give a checkpoint automatically to make testing easier, and they placed real checkpoints to be used by players after it was finished, but a problem came up, and they had to leave in the automatic checkpoints. Maybe this is because there were glitches caused by loading the earlier part of a level. For example, Sonic could enter Emerald Coast part 2, miss the checkpoint, and fall in the water. He'd then start from the last checkpoint he touched, which was in area 1 (if he even got one at all). The game would then have to load area 1 back into memory, and, as is already known, this would cause many objects, such as rings, to reappear. (Not to mention that the loading itself could be a problem.)

 

 

<2. new ways to lose>

 

There are 2 weird jingles in the sound test, and I might know what they're for.

First, there's "HURRY UP" for Amy. There's only one place where this is used, and that's in Tails's story, when Robotnik goes to detonate the missile. Because Tikal talks about Zero catching Amy, it's possible that there was going to be a way for him to catch Amy or Birdie, and she had to rescue him or escape while that music played. The other one is "MISS" for Big. Sometimes, a fish (or Froggy) scrapes a wall or floor, a weird sound plays, clouds of dirt come up from the floor, and then it gets away. The "MISS" jingle doesn't play, and even if it did, it wouldn't be for a glitch like that. There was probably going to be a way for fish to escape,

or maybe "MISS" would've played after Big snapped the line. (If you want to make a fish escape, here's how: The easiest way is to pull it directly under Big. Also, the edge of the ice can cause it to get away sometimes. The third way is for a fish to scrape the ground or wall, and that's mostly random. It usually happens in Twinkle Park.)

 

 

<3. the original Lost World>

 

The music track for area 1 is called "Tricky Maze", even though there's nothing tricky or mazelike about the stage. Another strange thing is in the room with the snake that goes in circles in the water. In the Dreamcast version, the exit door opens, and behind it is another door that opens. Approaching the second door causes Sonic to appear in area 2. Simple enough, right?

But the GameCube version has a blurry wall covering the second door, and below that is a hole in this blurry wall (visible with Action Replay). If this hole had been higher in the wall, it would have lined up with those two doors, making the second visible again. But why did they put it so much lower in SADX? Area 2 probably would have played "Leading Lights" for the mirror area, and then switched to "Chased by Rock" when the camera flipped around to look at the boulder rolling after Sonic. (Interestingly, nothing like this is done in the final version. The music never changes mid-area. The only event like this is when the music starts partway through Icecap 3.)

Another thing: I noticed that there are holes (where flaming arrows would shoot from) in the walls of the place where Sonic runs from the boulder. This could mean that arrows originally shot at Sonic, but they were taken out because it would be too hard. (There's not much he can do to dodge. Maybe the arrows would've just gone over or behind him.)

 

 

<4. random music stuff>

 

-"Chao Race: Entrance" is only in the Dreamcast version. Not surprisingly, it's used in the room where Chao Races are set up. The original music is still present in the GameCube version's sound test, and the new entrance music is missing. Note that this music is used in the entrance hub of Chao World in Sonic Adventure 2 Battle for GameCube (only the GCN version).

-"Title" is actually the music for the main menu. Maybe it was considered too long, so it got moved to the menu, and a shorter version was used for the title screen.

-I don't know what "Extend" is. Maybe it was for continuing after Game Over, unlocking something, or getting a continue. (Note: I looked in the PC version's wma folder, and it calls it "one_up"! Come to think of it, it sort of sounds like the 1up jingles from the Genesis games. Of course, the sound that's actually used in SA is more of a twinkly sound effect.)

-"Egg Carrier: The Ocean" is played for only a few seconds in E-102 Gamma's adventure, so it must have been meant for something else. It was probably the music for the Egg Carrier Crash Site, but SEGA just took the music from the flying Egg Carrier instead because they didn't have enough time (or maybe they forgot). (Again, the PC version has some interesting info: it refers to it as a second Egg Carrier theme, as if it's an Adventure field theme.)

-"ENEMY: Others" is only used for one boss, so there might have been more battles against Robotnik before.

-Jingle E is based on Open Your Heart, but this version is never actually used in the game.

D is used in the Dreamcast version for the SA homepage. It's an unfinished version of the invincibility jingle. A is an unfinished version of the options tune. B and C are unfinished versions (B being closer to the final) of "Choose Your Buddy".

 

 

<5. the Egg Carrier>

 

If you've played the game, you have a basic idea of how the Egg Carrier transforms, but do you really know exactly what the ship is and how it works? (I just found some of this a bit before writing the guide.) First of all, you should know that there are many different models. They are (in order from worst to best): the one that flies through other areas and is shown in the Master Emerald, the one that is shown in the background of the Adventure Fields, the one that's used in Sky Chase, the one that's used as the Adventure Fields, the one that's used in the FMVs, and finally, the super-huge, detailed segments that are used in the Sky Deck and Hot Shelter stages. When the Egg Carrier transforms, it's shown as a slightly lower-detail (but complete) Sky Chase version. The wings spread out and turn over, and the bases of the wings lift up the Captain's Room. At the same time, a big piece of the field slides over a track toward the very back of the ship, and this is what stops Sonic from reaching Robotnik as quickly in Adventure Mode. The Sky Deck entrance is then opened as the rest moves back and out of the way. The Sky Deck becomes playable because the wings are out. (Sky Deck is under and above the left wing of the Egg Carrier.) At the start, Sonic and Tails are under the base of the wing. If you fly out to the right and then go through the wall, you can see a sheet of glass, which is the tunnel where the

monorail goes. At the end of area 1, when you're about to destroy the cannon, look left. You'll see 2 grey hook-shaped things hanging off the end of the wing. After you destroy the cannon, you'll appear on the "hook", and the ruined cannon will be in front of you. As you go forward, notice that you have to climb up to a ledge (with a ladder across it) and then jump on another ledge after the runway area. After that, the yellow Robotnik button on the floor will open, and a second cannon will pop out. Past it, you can see the Captain's Room and the spinning disc behind it. Just quit the stage now. Watch the opening FMV (in slow motion) and look at the Egg Carrier. On its wing, you'll see 2 yellow buttons, which are the cannons of Sky Deck. (The big, flat one is the second cannon.) You'll also see a black and white strip along the edge of the wing, and that seems to be the "keyboard" of Sonic glitch #38. You can even see 2 lines going across the wing, and they are the ledges you climbed over in Sky Deck.

 

Now, in case you were wondering what I meant in the main section about "versions" of the Carrier... The normal one is when it's not transformed. The front one is the version of the transformed Egg Carrier that displays the most detail in the front (and lets you get into the Sky Deck as Sonic or Tails). The back one displays the most detail in the back (and lets you get into the Captain's Room and pool). If you get outside the walls, you can go from the front to the back (or the back to the front), and they will be simplified and unfinished-looking. Use Sonic #32 or Tails #12 to get outside the walls, and you can get a really good look at the wings. You can see the cannons, the ledges, and the "hook" things at the end.

 

About the Sky Deck's location, you now know where areas 1 and 2 fit in, but what about area 3?

It's still unknown, and it doesn't seem to fit anywhere. One idea was that it was the slope and flat, grey floor in front of the Captain's Room, but when the purpose of that floor was discovered (a track for stuff to slide on), that became impossible. (There were also a few other reasons.) Because the sky can be seen clearly in Sky Deck 3, it can't be under the Carrier, which was one of the biggest possibilities. Because the path at the middle of the back (Knuckles's entrance) goes directly to the pool, it must be in the

middle of the ship, but that seems impossible. From how Sonic gets into the stage, it seems to be under the wing again (and the path to the pool must take a few turns), but that doesn't mean anything, because Sonic just teleports from under the wing in area 1 to above the grey hook thing in area 2, anyway.

 

 

<6. Final Egg>

 

There are a bunch of weird things in Final Egg, and I'll go over each of them.

-First, there's that capsule right near the start in the Dreamcast version. (When you go down the first hill and reach the part where the path goes vertical, do the Super-Duper Jump (the double Light Dash trick used in Casinopolis on GameCube) up that vertical path and over to the left to reach the capsule. My guess is that it's in the default position (like how characters start off the path when they aren't supposed to be in a stage, but get there with Action Replay), or that the level was completely different before. Or, it might be left over from when entire stages were supposed to be rendered at once. A final possibility is that it was placed there so testers could test the transition from that level to the following events with the Egg Viper (most likely, this would also involve a seamless stage as well, putting this capsule's use very early in development).

-I'm not sure why SEGA would remove a wall and make it easy for GameCube players to take that shortcut at the start of area 2. Either the wall disappeared automatically because of a glitch, or they just figured that no one would try going through in that area. (That's pretty stupid, though, since it's right there, and there's only a slope hindering Sonic from getting out of the boundaries.)

-In the first room with the purple/pink exploding robots, there are holes in the ceiling.

If you use Knuckles or Tails, you can get up there (from above, or by jumping through the ceiling at the sloped walls just above and past the ladder), and there's an empty room up there. It's perfectly solid (or at least as solid as anything in this game can get), but it doesn't seem to have any purpose, except for detail. Sonic can look up there, and it's realistic when there are rooms that the main character doesn't have to walk into. I used that trick in a game I made. (but why would it be solid, then?)

-(see Tails glitch #14) That room with the 1ups must've been some kind of little bonus area for Sonic, but it would be too easy to see that place and go up there if the platform moved. Maybe it was a place for Sonic to get extra lives and prepare for the battle against the Egg Viper.

Note: F-Man later told me that it is possible to get up there as Sonic without using a glitch. The platform moves, but it's so slow that I didn't notice it at first. I don't know if it's supposed to be a secret, or if it was going to be sped up (to make getting up there easier) when the game was finished (which it never was, obviously!).

-The place past the capsule (to the right) is part of the Egg Viper room. Maybe the Egg Viper battle area would've been displayed with the rest of the level, but part of it got cut out when the full boss area became a separate stage. If it's not that, it must be just for detail (except most of it can't be seen). This is unlikely, but maybe Sonic could go into that room (and it was mostly complete) and look around before stepping into the goal area and completing the level to go to the boss stage with the Egg Viper. Or maybe that room was where the goal was, either as a capsule, or like mission C in the finished version, but the goal was moved back (because the designers couldn't be bothered to put in the Egg Viper area, or because it would use too many polygons).

 

 

 

 

CLOSING

 

Well, that’s it! I hope you found this guide interesting, and that it added a bit of depth and replay value to the game for you. The glitches were what made this “The Best Game Ever Made” for me.

 

I’d like to thank those who contributed material or suggestions to the guide, The Sonic Center and Cyberscore (for being there!), and RattleMan for making his own glitches guide which greatly increased my interest in Sonic Adventure and inspired this guide. And of course, Sega, for making a ridiculously ambitious game and trying to finish it in time for Christmas 1998!

 

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